At noon, the Bianhe River.

The water in the sun is sparkling and golden.

This is the busiest season for Cao Yun, the unloading dock in the distance has already been full of large merchant ships, and a group of shirtless men are carrying bags of goods packed in sacks, stepping on the wooden planks on the deck, unloading to the wharf.

Along both sides of the river, teahouses and restaurants stretch for miles, and all the private seats of the restaurants have windows open to the river, so that guests can enjoy the scenery while drinking.

The flow of people and goods in Bianliang is unparalleled, so the wharf for merchant ships to unload and the wharf for passenger ships to disembark are separated. Compared with the hot unloading dock, the wharf for passengers to get on and off is not far behind.

The wharf was densely packed with people, and the carriages and horses and soft sedan cars on the side were discharged far away. Among the crowd, there are personable scholars, big-bellied businessmen, officials who hug each other, and ordinary people in short-sleeved coats.

However, the real high-ranking officials, few of them came to the dock to greet them in person, and generally sent their families to come, and most of the officials in the crowd were below the seventh grade, and only one of the officials in the vermilion straight jacket was more conspicuous.

The official was in his early forties, with a square face and big ears, and a lofty spirit, but there were not many entourages beside him, only four or five people, but his rank was obviously high among the low-level officials, and from time to time officials in brocade robes came to greet him.

Next to him, standing side by side with him, but I don't know which house slaves, almost twenty people, although they were at the front of the dock, but neither those officials nor other wealthy merchants felt that there was anything wrong, and even some officials came to inquire about something.

The leader of this group of house slaves is Zhao Quan, the commander of the Great Song Jinyi Guard, the founder of the White Horse, the Zhengfeng doctor, and the housekeeper of the Zhongwu General's Mansion, and then Liang Lie, Li Honghe, and a group of henchmen and slaves.

And the official next to them is none other than the second official in the Jiangning Wang's Mansion, Wang Di, the new Xianmo servant, and Wang Xin's second uncle.

Because Wang Di was sentenced to Henan Prefecture before and did not serve in the capital, although he had heard of Zhao Hao, he did not meet, and recently when he entered the capital, Zhao Hao had already gone to Liaodong, so he and this niece and son-in-law have not been able to meet. Wang Di originally belonged to the Qingliu faction and was Jin Chongyue's protégé, and after entering Beijing, he heard about the deeds of this niece and son-in-law, and he was even more respectful and close, but Zhao Hao never returned.

Today, I happened to meet the house slaves on the Zhao Mansion to pick up the same person, although there was a huge disparity in identity between them, but they did not hesitate to lower their identities and chatted with Zhao Quan.

In the distance, a sail shadow came into everyone's eyes, gradually approaching the dock, and four or five large passenger ships were sailing towards this side, of which the first two passenger ships were particularly conspicuous.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

Just when everyone showed excitement in their eyes and raised their eyes to look, suddenly there was a commotion behind them, which caused everyone to retract their eyes unconsciously and look behind them.

I saw three young men in gorgeous Confucian shirts, followed by a group of menacing house slaves, pushing through the crowd all the way, shouting and squeezing towards the front of the dock.

Wang Di looked back and couldn't help but be furious, and asked, "Who is so rude?" ”

Someone on the side replied helplessly: "Although these three people are too students, they are the nephews of the current queen, so they are arrogant, and everyone dare not offend." ”

Wang Di frowned slightly, and wanted to say something, but after all, he couldn't bear it, but just snorted coldly.

The people who came were Zhao Hao's two old acquaintances, Zheng Feng and Zheng Yu, and the two of them were mixed up in Taixue: Zheng Feng had a hot fight with a group of second ancestors, drinking, gambling, visiting kilns, and fighting cocks...... They all go together, and everyone avoids them; Zheng Yu took his cousin Zheng Ning, a quasi-scholar, and called him a brother and brother with those sons.

Zhao Hao's glorious deeds, the two of them have also heard of it, after all, those college students of the Qing school, as soon as they mention "Hao Gongzi", their eyebrows flutter, saliva flying, the two are quite hit, but after all, there is no intersection, but they don't care very much.

The two of them rampaged all the way, but they were blocked by the two of them holding water and fire sticks, the two couldn't help but be furious, when they looked closely, they recognized Liang Lie and Li Hong, the house slaves of the Zhao Mansion, and they didn't feel a little softer in their hearts, after all, Zhao Hao commanded the capital, shouting and shouting and killing, even Gao Yanei and Gao Taiwei were broken, and the famous name was not covered, and there was a little shadow in the bottom of his heart.

However, Zheng Feng soon reacted and scolded angrily: "The Zhao family's dog, Hugh has to get in the way!" ”

Liang Lie was not annoyed, and laughed coldly: "In this world, who is not the dog of the Zhao family?" The Great Song Dynasty White Horse Founding Uncle, Zhongwu General, Zhengfeng Doctor, and Jinyi Wei commanded the envoy to welcome the master mother here, how dare you go on a rampage? ”

Li Hong also said coldly: "No matter how presumptuous you are, don't you want to drink tea in Jinyiwei?" ”

As soon as the three words of Jinyiwei came out, the two Zheng were completely soft. Although Zhao Hao is not in the capital, the murderous reputation of Jinyiwei also makes the traitor Ke deeply jealous, and regards Jinyiwei's yamen as hell, and the two Zheng know that it is powerful. Although they pride themselves on being the royal family, everyone knows that those Qiu Ba of Jinyiwei are simply soft and hard, except for Zhao Hao, no one's account is bought, and the two of them naturally don't want to touch this mildew easily, after all, although they call the current queen their aunt, the queen saint doesn't treat the two of them very well.

The two had to wait obediently behind, but they muttered uncleanly: "The dog of the lost master, when do you look arrogant?" ”

Liang Lie was about to fight back, but was pulled by Li Hong: "That's it, the master mother is coming." ”

……

An extremely luxuriously decorated passenger ship slowly approached the dock, and the deck was full of people.

A beautiful and gentle woman, surrounded by several maidservants, stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the opposite shore in a daze, with a confused look in her eyes, it was Wang Xin.

Since Zhao Hao went to the capital, the two have relied on correspondence and complained to each other. In this era, Jiangnan and Bianliang are far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, if it is an ordinary person, a letter can take three or four months, this is what the descendants said: in ancient times, the carriage and horse were very slow, the letter was far away, and there was only enough to love one person in a lifetime. But the Zhao family and the Wang family are not ordinary people, naturally it doesn't take that long, usually it only takes about a month to go back and forth, but this time, it was more than three consecutive months without receiving news from Zhao Hao, Wang Xin was so anxious that she finally couldn't stand it, regardless of her family's dissuasion, she decided to go to Bianliang to find out.

Zhao Shixuan and his wife, Wang Tong and others were also worried, and Wang Jue and Xie Yu were going to Beijing to catch the exam, so they asked Wang Xin to go to Bianliang with the two, and they happened to take care of it on the way.

Wang Tong was still not at ease, worried that Zhao Hao would have something wrong in Beijing, and happened to learn that his cousin was newly transferred to the capital, so he wrote a letter to Wang Di, asking him to take care of Wang Xin and Wang Jue's brothers and sisters, so Zhao Quan and Wang Di came to greet Wang Xin, Wang Jue, Xie Yu and others.

Wang Xin looked up and saw Wang Di, Zhao Quan and others, but she didn't see Zhao Hao, and the sorrow between her eyebrows became a little thicker.

Wang Jue on the side knew his sister's thoughts, and he couldn't bear it for a while, and said with relief: "Third sister doesn't have to worry, maybe Brother Hao has another business trip and can't come to greet him for some reason." ”

Wang Xin's expression was gloomy, and she said in a low voice: "Second uncle is here......"

Wang Jue didn't speak again, Wang Di greeted him in person as an elder, and if Zhao Hao was in the capital, there was no reason why he would come to greet him.

The passenger ship finally slowly docked, dropped the iron anchor, lowered the ladder, Wang Xin took the lead in boarding the ladder with the support of a maidservant, and Wang Jue and Xie Yu followed closely and boarded the dock.

Wang Di, Zhao Quan and others hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, while Zheng Yu and Zheng Feng rushed to another passenger ship to meet Zheng Hong from Jiangnan.

Everyone greeted each other, and after a long time, Wang Xin finally couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Quan, where is the son?" ”

Zhao Quan hurriedly said: "The son sent the Jurchen ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a voice that was neither yin nor yang: "Isn't this the young lady of the Zhao family?" See you at Zheng Feng, a grass farmer! ”

Everyone looked back angrily, only to see Zheng Feng rushing in at some point, taking advantage of the unpreparedness, and singing to Wang Xin with a hippie smile on his face, without waiting for Wang Xin to answer, he added: "It's a pity that the young lady became a widow at a young age, it's a pity." ”

"Presumptuous!"

"Bastard!"

As soon as Zheng Feng's voice fell, there were reprimands all around, but this guy seemed more and more proud, and he just said "It's a pity" in his mouth.

Wang Xin's heart shook violently, and when she looked up, she saw that the faces of Zhao Quan, Liang Lie, Li Hong and others were not right, and she became more and more panicked, only to feel that the sky was about to fall, and her legs were weak.

"Uncle Quan, my husband is ......"

"Young lady, don't listen to this nonsense, the son was ordered to send an envoy to Liaodong, and he will go back after seeing it." Zhao Quan said urgently.

Zheng Feng laughed: "Jinyi Wei Zhao commanded the envoy to lead only 300 people through thousands of miles of Liaodi, that is, he entered the knife mountain and went down to the sea of fire, and he did not return for more than three months. ”

"Fart!" Liang Lie couldn't help but shout angrily.

Zheng Feng was not annoyed, his face was full of schadenfreude, and he continued to say in a strange voice: "The whole Bianliang City knows about this matter, and it is not made up by someone Zheng, you will know as soon as you enter the city, why should you deceive yourself?" ”

Wang Xin looked at Zheng Feng's fearless expression, and then looked at Zhao Quan and the others with panicked expressions on their faces, only to feel that the sky was spinning, and their feet were completely unstable and shaky. A circle of tears in his eyes dripped, but he endured the sourness in his heart, and was stunned to prevent the tears from falling.

"Jinyiwei has arrived, please get out of the way!"

A burst of scolding came, attracting everyone's attention, at this time the dock has dispersed a lot, only to see a team of Jinyi guards dressed in flying fish suits, hanging from the waist of the green dragon wrong hand knife roaring forward, smoke and dust rolling, the momentum is pressing, provoking everyone to avoid.

When the first person galloped to the front of everyone, as soon as he pulled the reins of the horse, the horse raised his front hooves in a hurry, and stopped abruptly, and the rider on the horseback turned over, floated to the ground, and then bent forward and bowed: "Zhao Ling to meet the young lady!" ”

Immediately, dozens of brocade guards behind him also turned over and dismounted, lined up neatly behind Zhao Ling, and bowed down respectfully.

Wang Xin sobbed and said: "Uncle Ling, son, he ......"

Zhao Ling said loudly: "The prince was ordered to send an envoy to the Jin country, returned triumphantly, and landed at the ferry port in the north of the city. ”

"What?" Zheng Feng and the others were messy.

Wang Di, Zhao Quan and the others also looked at Zhao Ling with disbelief on their faces.

After a long time, Zheng Feng sneered unwillingly: "Joke, even if Zhao Hao returns from his mission, how can the official family stoop down to greet him in person, you are guilty of bullying the king!" ”

Zhao Ling Huo Ran turned around, rushed to him with an arrow, grabbed him by the collar, lifted him up like an eagle carrying a chicken, and said coldly: "Gongzi led three hundred elite horsemen to cross thousands of miles of Liaodi, helped the Jurchens break through the 100,000 Liao army in Tribulus Mountain, and overwhelmed the crowd in the competition with the Jurchens, so the Jurchens were convinced, and they were willing to accept my Great Song Dynasty covenant and become a brotherly country, and please send the minister of the clan to return with the national letter to send the prince back, this is an immortal achievement, so the official family led the crowd to welcome him, Zhao is just a small official, how dare he bully the king?" What crime should you be guilty of spreading rumors and humiliating the country? ”

Zheng Feng was intimidated by his momentum, stunned, his face was pale, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

In the crowd, Wang Xin cried with joy, tears raining down.